topic Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

juliangall — Mon, 28 May 2018 10:19:54 GMT

I have created a drawing from my model and selected the option to show the shaded style. However the edges of the shading have very large blocks of pixels. This is visible in Fusion 360 and in a saved PDF. It looks like an anti-aliased font, but highly magnified. The PDF attached shows the problem. It's set to size A0, but it's the same at smaller sizes.

Is there a setting that will ensure the shading comes up to the edges on curved lines, at the resolution of the screen/printer?

Thanks,

Julian

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

paul.clauss — Thu, 31 May 2018 20:20:20 GMT

Hi @juliangall

Thanks for posting! This is a known issue for our drawings development team (internal reference FDWG-9835). Unfortunately, there is not a workaround or setting to resolve this problem behavior at this time. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

juliangall — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 05:50:00 GMT

Thanks for letting me know.

Julian

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

petermat — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:27:28 GMT

Is tthe reply still true two years on?

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

ClintBrown3D — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:19:25 GMT

Hi @petermat

I believe that this issue has been resolved.

I've just tested this on my system, here are some screenshots of a PDF from a Fusion 360 drawing. The 2nd picture is a zoomed-in view of a shaded isometric view.

I've attached the PDF for reference

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

petermat — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:29:19 GMT

Thanks. I had not noticed this, but wanted to be sure there was no gotcha waiting for me down the line before commiting to a workflow.

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

ClintBrown3D — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 05:54:26 GMT

Hi @petermat

As always, I suggest that you do a test on your environment and with your data to make sure that you get the results you expect.

I'd love to hear back as to your results.

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

petermat — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 03:59:04 GMT

Looking good so far - Thanks

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

gilliss9DQHX — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:31:45 GMT

I am having this same issue and it's very disappointing. I can see the poor resolution even when viewing my drawings, and it comes out in exported PDFs.

This is the mac version of Fusion360.

A0 example drawing:

200% scale:

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

ClintBrown3D — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:41:08 GMT

Hi @gilliss9DQHX

Welcome to the forums.

I’m sorry to hear that you are having trouble. I’d like the team to take a closer look at this file for you. This is an area of the product that we are actively developing, so your drawing would be helpful to us.

Please share a downloadable link to your drawing, so that I can ask the team to investigate this, or if it is sensitive, feel free to send it directly to me Clint. Brown {a} Autodesk.com

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

ClintBrown3D — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:00:48 GMT

Hi All, just an update from the Fusion side. We made a change in the July release, which you should all have access to by now, it improves the resolution of the underlying image in a view, details can be seen here (scroll down a little): https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/july-2023-product-update-whats-new/#Drawings

As a follow-up to this, I'd be interested to understand how your drawings look after using the new view toggle. If any of you are up for it, here is a link to my calendar, please book a 30-minute session with me, and we can chat on Zoom (Note that times are in 24:00 format so 03:00 is 3am, 15:00 is 3pm). Or if a good old-fashioned email is more your style, feel free to ping me Clint. Brown {a} Autodesk.com

Re: Drawing has very roughly rendered shading on curved lines

gilliss9DQHX — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:06:49 GMT

It does look better than before. Thanks for pointing this out.